Sunday Morning for Sunday 6 October 2024

8:10 Middle East update 

For the latest, we’re joined by Geoffrey Miller from The Democracy Project. 

8:25 The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen   

Our quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back for another Sunday Morning quiz.   

Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC quiz show ‘Only Connect’ which is known for being both difficult to crack and totally obvious.     

It’s Sunday morning, so wake up your brain and have a go!       

8:30 Craig Brown: A Voyage Around the Queen 

Award winning author Craig Brown is known for his biographies of The Beatles and Princess Margaret respectively.  

In his latest book, A Voyage Around the Queen he turns his attention to one of the most famous and defining figures of our time, Queen Elizabeth II, examining the late monarch in her time through the eyes of those who encountered her. 

9:10 Mediawatch 

Mediawatch looks at coverage of the controversial call to cut back the rebuild of Dunedin Hospital - and how local media helped to drive the backlash.   

Also: Patrick Gower’s kicked off a new ‘feel-good’ weekly video show for Stuff. But do we really want good news when times are bad?    

9:30 Romesh Ranganathan’s brand-new show comes to Aotearoa 

Multi award-winning comedian, writer, actor and host of BBC’s Weakest Link, Romesh Ranganathan brings his brand-new show to Aotearoa.  The show, Hustle examines the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing?  Jim will ask these questions and more. 

10:10 The legendary Dionne Warwick’s “one last tour” of New Zealand 

After 50 years of hit songs, superstar songstress Dionne Warwick returns to New Zealand for what she is calling “one last tour”. 

She joins Jim to talk about everything from shopping with Marelene Deitrich to having a word with Snoop Dog about how he referred to young women. 

10:25 Celebrity endorsement and the US Election 

This week saw the US Vice Presidential debate widely accepted as a tie and singer Chappell Roan faced backlash from fans for failing to endorse a candidate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. 

Dr. Todd Belt is the director of the Political Management program at The Graduate School of Political Management in Washington DC. He joins Jim to discuss the campaign so far. 

10:50 Argue with Science 

Mary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science.    

11:10 Jan Preston: Boogie woogie around the North Island 

Pianist, composer and songwriter, Jan Preston is known as Australasia's Queen of Boogie Piano. This October she’s on the road right across the North Island promoting her new album Pianoland. 

11:25 How comfy are your insoles? 

Given insoles vary widely in price, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is looking for people with chronic joint pain, or who have flat feet, sore heels (plantar fasciitis), or who are diabetic to trial a bunch of different insoles for five weeks to see which ones are rated tops. 

Dr Patria Hume, Professor of Human Performance, is leading the study and joins us to tell us more.  

If you would like to participate, you can find more information on their website or sending an email to  insole@aut.ac.nz 

11:35 Calling Home: Malcolm Wright in Pasadena, California 

Dr Malcolm Wright is calling home from Souther California.  Malcolm works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and is the technical lead responsible for delivering the flight and ground lasers used in the Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration project. 

11:50 Who most deserves government help? 

If you were running New Zealand and had $100, how much of this money would you spend to support and take care of different vulnerable groups of the population? 

That’s one of the questions Research New Zealand asked Kiwis in their latest research. Managing partner Emanuel Kalafatelis joins us.